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History · Emmet

22% of Emmet’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1902 on and old-book passages.

0on the National Register

22%homes built before 1940

What stands out about Emmet’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Emmet are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19023 editions of the USGS map, 1902 to 1981. Watch Emmet change.

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On the map

Emmet on the map, 1902 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Emmet. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

1902Marathon sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Emmet.

The story so far

Emmet, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Emmet yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Emmet is a town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 905 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Halder is located in the town.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 931 to 905 (-3%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Emmet in 1913

Passages that mention Emmet, cut from the printed page as they were published.

health but also proving satisfactory in a financial way. From being an ordinary carpenter he became a carpenter contractor in the town of Frankfort, from which he moved, in 1897, to Haider, in the town of Emmet, where he embarked in a general mercantile business and so continued until his first ele… — **History of Marathon County, Wisconsin**1913 · page 641Read the page →
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health but also proving satisfactory in a financial way. From being an ordinary carpenter he became a carpenter contractor in the town of Frankfort, from which he moved, in 1897, to Haider, in the town of Emmet, where he embarked in a general mercantile business and so continued until his first election to the responsible office he yet fills. Prior to the establishing of the free rural delivery there he was postmaster of the village. Always a stanch supporter of Democratic doctrines and candidates, Mr. Schirpke became a leader in local political cir-
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Edgar has a telephone company, duly incorporated, with C. C. Barrett as president and William Bier as manager, with seventy-five telephones, which with their connections in Edgar, Cassel, and Emmet, gives its patrons one hundred and ninety telephones ; besides which it has connections with six othe… — **History of Marathon County, Wisconsin**1913 · page 504Read the page →
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Edgar has a telephone company, duly incorporated, with C. C. Barrett as president and William Bier as manager, with seventy-five telephones, which with their connections in Edgar, Cassel, and Emmet, gives its patrons one hundred and ninety telephones ; besides which it has connections with six other circuits in Marathon county. Its telephone station opens at 7 A. M. and closes at 10 P. M., and night calls are promptly answered.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Emmet, 1887 to 1908

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

19th century
1887Post officeThe Halder post office opens
20th century
1902On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
1908Post officeThe Halder post office closes

By decade

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Famous people

Famous people close to Emmet

Nobody well known was born in Emmet itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Cole CaufieldAmerican ice hockey player · b. 2001

Jordan ZimmermannAmerican baseball pitcher · b. 1986

Macey KiltyAmerican freestyle wrestler · b. 2001

Jerry DahlkeAmerican baseball player · b. 1929

Keith HeckendorfAmerican football coach · b. 1981

Bob RaczekAmerican sports coach · b. 1938

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Another post office, Halder, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map

Halder

Gone or out of use

Granite Hill SchoolschoolLadick and Belanger QuarrymineLadick QuarrymineLudington Schoolschool

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

MosineeIts storyC⁻Green ValleyIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town ClevelandIts storyC⁺CasselIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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